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How Determine If Hard Drive Is Physical or Virtual?

Determine Product Key From Unbootable Hard DriveMy brother bought a tower a few years ago from a small computer shop in the area. The shop is no longer in business. My niece has been using the computer without problem since they first set it up for her.
Now the computer won't boot, giving a 'bad hard drive, replace immediately' type of...

Installation & Setup

Trying to determine if my hard drive is about to dieI don't know if this is a hardware or a software issue, so I put it in this section. I'm really worried that one of my hard drives is failing, but I don't know for sure. Here's the story:
Fed up with Windows 8.1, I decided to go back to Windows 7 Pro. So I copied all my personal files onto my...

Hardware & Devices

Can the CD/DVD Drive for physical computer be added to Virtual PC?I am trying to use the Windows XP Mode Virtual PC to play CIV II. The game does not find the CD in the CD/DVD Drive. The "Computer" screen for the Virtual PC does not include the CD/DVD drive in the list of removable media devices. Can this drive be added to the Virtual PC?

second physical hard drive?Hi, if I have PC tower with a spare hard drive slot. If I place a new HD in there, will that automatically give its a drive letter?
Ideally I would prefer to install another OS on that drive?||Is that possible?||Thanks

Hardware & Devices

Virtual Drive makes physical drive disappearEvery time I place a virtual DVD drive on my computer it makes my physical drive disappear in My Computer AND Device Manager :/.
Device Manager then instead just sees the Virtual Drive..
I've tried to do that upper/lower filter to no avail considering I don't have those options when I have a...